Midnight Call (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour)
Midnight Call
Nadia Cassidy is one step away from being out on the street, but her pride won’t let her ask her family for money. When she stumbles across an ad for a live-in nanny, she applies although she has no experience. How hard can living with three gorgeous guys and one tiny baby be?
Jackson Burrows received a call in the middle of the night that changed his world. His estranged sister has died, leaving him custody of her newborn baby. Jackson, along with his two roommates and best friends Greg Ballantyne and Steve Dalaney, quickly realizes that they are in over their heads and decide to hire a live-in nanny.
The attraction is instant between Nadia and the guys, but their relationship and friendship will be tested when Robert, the baby’s father, shows up and tries to take the baby and sell it to pay off his gambling debts.
Genre:
Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre
Length:
52,320 words
Keyonna Davis
MENAGE AMOUR
Siren Publishing, Inc.
www.SirenPublishing.com
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MIDNIGHT CALL
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First E-book Publication: September 2012
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MIDNIGHT CALL
KEYONNA DAVIS
Copyright © 2012
Sarah Burrows panted heavily as she waited outside her hotel room for the cab to pick her up. This wasn’t supposed to happen so soon. The baby was coming a month early, and she couldn’t have picked a worse time to make her appearance in the world. Sarah had hoped to have her life together before she had the baby, and she almost had everything in order. She’d expected to have at least a few more weeks to work and save up enough money to afford an apartment of her own before the baby came. Unfortunately, things always had a way of never working out the way she planned them.
She moved from the step when the cab pulled up and slowly made her way to the car. Obviously, the driver saw what condition she was in because he got out quickly and ran to open her door. He looked terrified when he saw her panting and sweating.
“Oh geez, lady, please tell me you aren’t going to have that baby soon. I just had the seats cleaned.”
Sarah snorted. She was so not in the mood. “Well then, Mr. Sensitive, I suggest you hop your ass back in that seat and use every short cut you know to get me to the hospital as fast as you can.” She didn’t even get the chance to shut the door good before the driver peeled away from the curb. If she wasn’t in pain, Sarah would have laughed at the look on his face as he kept staring at her crotch in the rearview mirror.
What, does he think the baby is going to stick her hand out and wave hi at him?
She had to give the driver credit when he made the twenty-minute trip to the hospital in only ten. Sarah was digging through her purse for cash when her door opened and the driver yelled for a nurse to bring a wheelchair.
“How much do I owe you?” she asked, panting.
“No charge, lady,” he said as a couple of nurses helped her out.
Sarah watched as the driver inspected his backseat and then got in the car and pulled off.
Well, now I know how to get free cab rides.
She started to laugh at how funny the situation was but groaned instead when a contraction hit.
After what seemed like answering a thousand questions and suffering through the doctor poking and prodding her, Sarah was able to relax in bed. She had been given an epidural and medication to try to stop her labor. For the moment she wasn’t in pain, and she was able to think clearly. She pushed the button on the side of the bed to call the nurse. A few seconds later, the door opened.
“Yes, Ms. Burrows, I’m Nurse Wilson. Is everything okay?”
“I need to get something out of my purse. Can you hand it to me please?”
Sarah watched as the nurse opened the cabinet where they had placed all of her personal belongings and got her purse out. When the nurse handed it to her, she pulled out an envelope and stared at it. She had tried to mail the letter so many times, but she always chickened out. Now it seemed that she might not have a choice in the matter. Her gut instinct was screaming that something bad was about to happen. Sarah just hoped the baby was okay.
“Is there anything else I can get you, Ms. Burrows?”
“Please call me Sarah, and there is something you can do for me. If anything happens to me, I need you to call my brother. I put him down as my emergency contact when I filled out all the paperwork, so you have his number. If he comes, then I need you to give him this letter.”
The nurse tried to deny that anything was wrong, and Sarah really did hope that everything was okay, but she wasn’t taking any chances. “Can you please just do this for me? I’m not expecting anything bad to happen, but I just want to make sure that I have everything covered if things do go wrong,” Sarah said as she pushed the envelope into the nurse’s hand.
Finally, the nurse smiled and nodded. “If something happens, then I promise I will give this letter to your brother. I will more than likely be returning it to you when you get released though.” She didn’t say another word as she tucked the envelope in her scrub pocket and walked out of the room.
Sarah settled back on the bed and rubbed her belly. Now that she’d done everything she could to make sure that her baby was taken care of she could relax. She had a contingency plan set up in case something happened to her. Her brother might hate her, but she knew that he would never turn his back on family, and he would take care of her daughter if he had to. Sarah’s only regret when she’d left home at eighteen was leaving Jackson. She felt guilty for abandoning him, but she knew he would never abandon her daughter. He would give her the life she deserved and love her like she was his own. That was more than the baby’s father could do and all Sarah could ask for. When she’d found out she was pregnant, Sarah made the decision to hide it from her boyfriend. She knew he was no good, and she refused to expose her baby to him. She made the decision that day to change her life and leave him, and she had finally saved up enough money, no thanks to him and his gambling, to disappear about three weeks before. Sarah was glad for that since it looked like the baby was coming early.
Pain in her stomach and wetness between her legs caused Sarah to yell out. She threw the cover back and almost passed out when she saw blood on the sheet and not the clear liquid she expected from her water breaking. The nurse must have heard her scream because she burst through the door and then started yelling for the doctor when she saw the blood.
Time seemed to stand still as doctors and nurses rushed around the room. Sarah knew that something major was wrong, but she couldn’t seem to make herself focus enough to find out what was going on. She was quickly wheeled to another room, and a blue sheet was draped in front of her. She felt tugging and pulling in her belly and saw that a nurse was trying to talk to her, but she couldn’t hear because of the buzzing in her ears. Her vision began to blur, and she was having a hard time breathing. Just as her vision blackened, Sarah heard her baby cry for the first time.
That is probably the most beautiful sound I have ever heard
, she thought as everything went black.
The phone ringing in the middle of the night should have been a clear signal to Jackson that something was wrong. After the long day at work, he wanted nothing more than to turn over and ignore it. Unfortunately, he was never going to be able to go back to sleep until he saw who was calling. He had no choice but to answer.
“Yeah, this is Jackson,” he grumbled, trying to clear his throat.
“Hi, I’m looking for a Mr. Jackson Burrows? Am I speaking with him?”
Jackson sat up in bed. His stomach dropped, knowing this call was not going to be good. “This is Jackson Burrows. Who is this, and what’s going on?”
“I’m Nurse Wilson from County Memorial Hospital, and I am calling to inform you that your sister Sarah was admitted tonight due to complications from her pregnancy. Your name was listed as next of kin to notify in case of an emergency.”